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The Manners Of Women Are The Surest Criterion By Which To Determine Whether A Republican Government Is Practicable In A Nation Or Not.

So Great Is My Veneration For The Bible That The Earlier My Children Begin To Read It The More Confident Will Be My Hope That They Will Prove Useful Citizens Of Their Country And Respectable Members Of Society. I Have For Many Years Made It A Practice To Read Through The Bible Once Every Year.

The Origin Of The Political Relations Between The United States And France Is Coeval With The First Years Of Our Independence. The Memory Of It Is Interwoven With That Of Our Arduous Struggle For National Existence. Weakened As It Has Occasionally Been Since That Time, It Can By Us Never Be Forgotten, And We Should Hail With Exultation The Moment Which Should Indicate A Recollection Equally Friendly In Spirit On The Part Of France.

In Charity To All Mankind, Bearing No Malice Or Ill Will To Any Human Being, And Even Compassionating Those Who Hold In Bondage Their Fellow Men, Not Knowing What They Do.

The Hope Of A Christian Is Inseparable From His Faith. Whoever Believes In The Divine Inspiration Of The Holy Scriptures Must Hope That The Religion Of Jesus Shall Prevail Throughout The Earth. Never Since The Foundation Of The World Have The Prospects Of Mankind Been More Encouraging To That Hope Than They Appear To Be At The Present Time. And May The Associated Distribution Of The Bible Proceed And Prosper Till The Lord Shall Have Made 'bare His Holy Arm In The Eyes Of All The Nations, And All The Ends Of The Earth Shall See The Salvation Of Our God' (isaiah 52:10).